12 Directors Who Have Never Made A Bad Movie

4. David Lynch

From his debut with instant cult-classic Eraserhead to his last feature film, 2006's Inland Empire, Lynch's career has birthed some of the most iconic characters, settings, and, weirdly enough, catchphrases, in American cinema.

However the main differentiator between Lynch and his imitators, who have tried and failed to ape the intoxicatingly obtuse nightmares that Lynch so vividly brings to life, is you always get the sense that he's having fun with his work.

He understands how ridiculous it is to have The Good Witch show up in Wild At Heart, or to put so much focus on the overly-cheery grandparents in Mulholland Drive, but that inherent silliness never detracts from the impact and resonance of his thought-provoking abstract material.

The director did make a couple of mistakes when he was first breaking into Hollywood, and the sci-fi epic Dune completely wasted his talents, but even at his worst, Lynch is still far more interesting than the majority of filmmakers could ever hope to be.